site wiki leaks whistleblower bradley manning pleads guilty to ten charges brought against him by the government we got details and reaction coming up. full agreement over mali but syria remains a point of contention president putin some of his key foreign policy discussions with french leader francois alarmed. but it begins his retirement after leaving the vatican for the last time while the catholic church looks to restore its reputation has been marred by sexual abuse and corruption. you think should live for the arctic new central moscow it's kevin owen here tonight just after eleven pm now on our top story this military bradley manning has pleaded guilty to ten out of twenty two charges against him tonight he admitted to

leaking the u.s. state secrets to wiki leaks but denied aiding the enemy that's a charge that could lead him to life in jail the details now from artie's when important new york. u.s. army private bradley manning is addressing a military tribunal for meade we are told reading thirty five page statement on what he did and why he didn't did it according to reports manning said he leaked instant logs from the wars in iraq and afghanistan in order to start a public debate twenty five year old told the tribunal is that he believed that the diplomatic cables he gave to weaken the leaks would not damage the u.s. but would be embarrassing manning claims that he had initially attempted to contact contact traditional mainstream media outlets such as the washington post the new york times and politico but failed to get through to them later deciding to pass the documents on to weekly leaks he also said that he engaged in prolonged internet

conversations with a wiki leaks member called ox and manning assumes it was julian assange much now manning has reportedly also requested to the tribunal that he be tried by a military judge alone no jury according to reports he also did say that no one associated with wiki leaks pressured him for more information presumably that it was manning who was giving information voluntarily more than one time now this is the first time the twenty four twenty five year old soldier has formally admitted guilt since being arrested more than one thousand days ago now manning pleaded guilty to ten counts including authorized possession and both full communication of sensitive material such as the state department cables and other materials provided to. attorney manning has pleaded not guilty to aiding the enemy and

a number of other lesser charges however the soldier allegedly told the court that he would like to take blame for charges that were not presented by the u.s. government rather introduced by manning alone that the u.s. government has charged manning on twenty two counts prosecutors were aiming for life in prison what's being reported is that manning is hoping that with this with this plea he could be sentenced to a maximum of twenty years in prison but many critics say that it is through all the horrific detention that manning has endured for years that has gotten him to this point of pleading guilty on ten counts and we should remind our viewers that it was for more than nine months that this army intelligence analyst was held in solitary confinement for twenty three hours a day in a six by eight foot windowless cell forced to sleep naked without bed sheets and kept on suicide watch. from

a long time of because of transparency in most cases from the u.k. part of parties to the time they were the most good evening to you how do you think running the guilty plea will affect his trial. well i think this is a very interesting day and a day that's been a long time in coming let's not forget that he's been in detention for over a thousand days now that's essentially a punishment in itself even this or that we've had a verdict i think perhaps one of the significant thing is what you highlighted in your report is actually that he's decided to plead not guilty to charges of aiding the enemy the charges that could see him languishing in jail the rest of his life that charge was always clearly absurd and way over the top but also in fact don't trip because of the implications that it has to press freedom what what he didn't do and that's what he's outlined today he didn't pass it to any enemy.

what he says he didn't keep our information to wiki leaks so therefore that makes wiki leaks the enemy and by extension surely surely the new york times and the guardian the enemy if these charges charges all the talk about the washington post and other new york times are just a moment of the bigger picture here i guess the broad picture is rosy was concern today was he said to leak these state secrets to enlighten the public about it american foreign and military policy considering what he's gone for the thousand days in prison what he's already had was it worth it. to look at the i think it's very very much clearly time that people stand up for whistleblowers and that principle of whistle blowing is in fact a vital to our democratic process and vital to the free in the press i think it's been very interesting is that finally he's getting put his point of view over sort of a case in so speculated on i think it just also seems records that are coming out.

it's also ok for example him saying it's terms of the collateral murder of this. if there actually the attitude showed that she spoke of it being like like children torturing and with a magnifying glass i think it's hugely hugely chilling and it's actually illegal porton that we actually have to stand up. to account you talked there about the new york times just now manning says he tried to give the files include details of widespread civilian deaths to the new york times to the washington post at the time he wasn't taken seriously these are pillars of u.s. journalism what you would learn about that well i think it's very interesting that those revelations today at think it's actually it's kind of but it's it's a wake up call for mainstream media that actually i think that they have been very

much sleeping but i think also to show the influence of wiki leaks and that includes whistle blowing i think is absolutely transformed. and i hope that that process continues. manning spent over a thousand days in jail with no trial he was in solitary confinement for twenty three hours a day at one facility disfigures treatment and he did do with his plea. well i wouldn't like to speculate on that but we've certainly seen that that that for example the united nations around out about about his treatment i think it's to the credit of activists all around the world who are who have managed to put focus on this case that actually that that's that he was taken from quantico i think that was the activists of show your way in and courage government happened but we should see how this case develops and wouldn't want to speculate on

where it goes next in a case been so many twists and turns or at last thank you for your thoughts leader of the u.k. pirate party there on a lot of things for munches and i'd like to thank you. ok let's get some more thoughts more reaction this time a politician who pushed for manning to receive the nobel peace prize no less is louder m.p. bigoted johns did his work in the whigs talk to us and give us her thoughts tonight as well. ok. thanks for being with us why do you think private manning deserves a nobel prize. because he dared to do many other needs to do and that is blow the whistle on war crimes and to basically bring into the concert ask for homes the horror of war and what people i've gone through and i don't really think it would have mattered to him which. ash anality worse doing the crime and i don't think and i'm really pleased to be with the result of his.

statement today that it is obvious that his intention was never to aid the enemy but to inform the general public in the united states and in all all the other countries that have been involved with the wars in afghanistan and iraq to what is really going on in our name in order to try to stop it and just from what i've heard from his statements of just basically been following it on twitter. the only thought that i haven't much my mind is that this person is a hero there your thoughts and we got worldwide attention on the realities of war the human consequences for innocent civilians in the behaviors of u.s. troops the question is will the the y. the world recognized his actions ever be recognized as you'd really like to be recognized you think. i think so yeah i really like i've been following his case ever since i heard about it it's just for the first time in the news and you know i

co-produced the collateral murder video in order to make sure the stuff would be brought to the general public. to do that and. from seeing you know the development of the attention to his case both in the united states and globally that has been radically changing and i think that by him you know in a sense it's a it is a relief for me to hear him plead guilty to leaking this particular video so i know that you know i might not be harming his case by saying what he did was indeed what he did because i did you know did you take it a comfort from the fact that the pentagon eventually did bowed to pressure from human rights groups and posted over eighty unpublished rulings on manning's trial did you know it was a breakthrough. yeah and i think that in general this case just like was stated earlier. this case has shown us. the

influence and the ability of individuals to transform our world so both manning is one of these people and all the activists that are made sure that he would not use people gotten in jail and then now finally the mainstream media in the united states can't ignore his story and what he's been going through and i think that this very important and of course it is incredible to hear about that he tries to to take this to other media before he tried to get it to little league syndicalist was the only place that would actually acknowledge the significance of the documents that he was handing over icelandic and added jones to. for now but things are small she thought you know program to. my pleasure i hope you can stay with us too as we exclusively from russia's u.n. envoy he spoke to me earlier on as the country takes charge of the security council from friday also talking tonight as well about pope benedict's beginning his

retirement we saw the live pictures of him flying off above the vatican and was like what's going to be no for the beleaguered catholic church just a couple of the many stories we've got coming up ahead. wealthy british. market. find out what's really happening to the global economy with mike's no holds barred look at the global financial headlines kaiser report.

in a position to say exactly what's on offer from his western backers washington's pledging known lethal aid for rebel fighters for the first time as well as funding the movement with an extra sixty million dollars but secretary of state john kerry says weapons will not be provided to opposition fighters the he was also agreed to talk about this no. this is a significant change from what we were hearing from washington

a year ago the tone has changed that the administration has become a lot more cautious when talking about syria at some point it became hard for washington to ignore the very strong radical element among the opposition in rome where john kerry met with syrian opposition leaders who said the u.s. would provide only non-lethal assistance to buy food medical supplies the u.s. has pledged sixty million dollars to that it's been clear for some time now that they've ministration decided against arming the rebels we heard we previously heard president obama talk about non-lethal assistance about the need for a political solution so the syrian opposition has been already getting those signals from washington their leader. has recently called for dialogue with the government although a year ago that seemed to have been out of the question for the syrian opposition so political ramifications of this shift in the administration's rhetoric could soon be felt on the ground a note of caution here syria is already lost in arms we're getting reports that the gulf states continue to provide weapons to the rebels and they don't share the

views of the white house as far as flooding syria with more or mz and it's not clear whether washington is making any effort to bring its arab allies closer to where the u.s. now stands on the issue. syria came up during president putin's talks with his french counterpart in moscow several hours ago to in the lead to admit to while there are issues they can work on there are divisions too that need bridging thomas but it has been across what the president's been saying on their own but it comes to syria francoise alond saying that they've come a long way they had some really serious discussions putin saying they had some intense discussions even an argument if you will on the topic but they share the same common goals and they both agree that syria should not be stabilized even further and they should be fighting terrorism of course francois hollande believes that bashar assad needs to go and putin saying that the government the legitimate government is better than the insurgents or better than fighting the opposition in

fact this is exactly why russia supported france's involvement in mali because france went in to support the government and to fight terrorism there they said that they discussed of the transition from the combat operations to the new peacekeeping mission which will be happening there both sides said that they were working a little closer together to improve business relations and relations within the country even some jokes about them not feeling very warm towards each other but they put on a good show to make sure that people realize that france and russia are indeed working together to improve the relations for both countries even though on some of the key sticking points they don't agree russia is about to take over the monthlong presidency of the u.n. security council the country's envoy to the united nations earlier told me about what that means that the organizations agenda. it's looking like a very crowded month of march the highlight of our presidency is going to be a ministerial debate on afghanistan the mandate of the u.n.

mission in afghanistan is going to be extended for another year and that of course is going to be very important here for afghanistan with the upcoming presidential elections in april of two thousand and fourteen also of course the big important decision or talks to be had about what to do with syria next a big schism amongst a very she remembers about what is the best thing to do how is russia going to try and bring people together than over the next month our position is very simple we believe that the violence must stop and for that dialogue must be established without precondition and the government is saying that there were outlined there negotiating team there outlined their proposals for dialogue unfortunately in the past few days the opposition seems to have been backtracking from the original statement which was made by the leader of the national coalition is to cut the about readiness to go into dialogue with the syrian government this is the key issue without dialogue i'm afraid and without the political will on the part of all

syrians all the main stakeholders in that country the international community can do much course the syrian opposition very much in the news again today they've been promised more non lethal help from the u.s. if that's the case where's the lethal support coming from do you think what russia is her view on the united states for a number of reasons chooses not to sally's hands with direct supply of weapons to to the armed groups because among them there are some terrorists and others with whom the united states would prefer not to be associated but at the same time they they give a wink and a nod to those who provide direct military aid to do rebel are. a moment about the latest in iran no still certain no significant breakthrough of course in those talks in kazakstan iran said they were. in some ways positive but the general consensus was not a lot was done the talks further talks were agreed what are your thoughts about the

six brought new proposals to the table with active participation of russia and the process was everything ready for you even though we know in kazakhstan. well you know. not really a radical new but there are some new important elements which should make it more attractive for the iranians to finally enter into negotiations on the core of the matter that is here perhaps but at the sixteenth tenure is pope is now officially over after getting an emotional farewell to his cardinals and flew to his temporary residence for his stay for a couple of months until work completed on a permanent home in the vatican a successor though as the daunting task of restoring the church is battered reputation after a string of child abuse and corruption scandals. reports rome. it's probably safe to say that he has brain size of relief in some respect because yesterday during his address to the masses as he did say that for the last several years he felt like i was a tremendous burden on him and sometimes he felt like he could crack under the

pressure of course what he's leaving behind is not just his famous red shoes which he will not be wearing anymore his room behind a rather trying is rather hard legacy as a lot of people that we have spoken to have said that the pope has not been quite good and and making the catholic church keep up with the times with modern times and more details here now about what kinds of challenges the catholic church is now facing it's not just about selecting a new bishop of rome some say but the very future of the catholic church the catholic church is undergoing a very important crisis it is a crisis at two levels it is a government crisis and it is it tries this of the believers. in the last years of the world was focused on the government crisis and devout to come to korea pope benedict was a pope who is a great intellectual thing

a theologian but he has not is strong hand to lead the food he has not the temperament of a government so there was a lack of leadership which culminated in the great scandals over but the leaks far from the splendor of the sistine chapel a closer look at the recent events in the vatican to highlight disillusionment and frustration with the church mom said all about the i distanced myself from the church when i became an adult when i started talking about what had been taught with after all the scandals broke out in the catholic church and i realize that it doesn't represent my spirituality but in fact the sixteenth may have been the first pope with a twitter account but many argue this measure alone was not strong enough in appealing to the masses. and there will be no more tweets once pope benedict the sixteenth steps down now this is the age of transparency the age of the people the churches should be properly. they've been. considering.

the great assets everybody now you see. the problem with the media they're really working on the system he went to change things for people of brayley of this inability to face up to and much less to punish those who may be responsible for tainting the image of the church is the deciding factor in abandoning catholicism. if there's another scandal with a girl who disappeared in the vatican twenty years ago and they say the man found her remain mysterious italian police are leading the investigation here but instead of helping them the vatican is obstructing the investigation that's likely they knew about. them and on top of all those cases a part of it was that this is just disgusting the list of controversial events involving catholic priests or vatican officials reads like a tabloid reports of sex abuse pedophilia accusations allegedly corruption and

possible ties with the mafia while the media especially in italy has been having a field day with the scandals the vatican other state silent all rebuffed all accusations but those things may be looking rather grim for the seat of st peter's at a first glance there's still a chance the catholic church can make a comeback which would be washable exchange. with the church really splitting with three but then came out stronger could be stronger with a come to the fore because you know the two with the power in this pretty sure so based. on the song back to the church was the spiritual but in spite of that personality restraint relations have left me wondering if the holiest. he has been blind the world is rapidly changing and to the rock layers that the catholic church has failed to keep pace sure it has seen a fair number of ups and downs as well as scandal in its two thousand year long

history but there is opinion that perhaps taking on pleasant development sweeping it under the carpet and filling it with people going for secrecy is a tradition better left in the past in rome. r.t. . ok oh do you know that in your thoughts of a long term prospects for the catholic church as it prepares for a new leader you can see this is how the polls pulling out again this is what you've been telling us the majority of you this think forty four percent of voters in fact in a poll this hour is going to get one percent from last think the church is going to drown a bit it's mounting scandals not so terribly optimistic however twenty three percent of you there think the catholic movement will benefit if from the n.t. was written sentiment in europe actually increase its influence sixteen percent this hour is change just a tad as well think the schism will render the church powerless slightly fewer of you still have some confidence that there will be a resurgence but so the the charts graphs putting out you can change the course the website still open up the dot com for your vote now thanks taking part if you have

. level twenty five here moscow time more world news in brief first to bahrain this seven people have been jailed for ten years each for attempting to murder a police officer but incident took place during ongoing anti-government demonstrations thirteen of the people were acquitted on wednesday two policemen were found not guilty of shooting a protester dead the rulings threaten to feel more unrest in the sunni controlled kingdom it's been a brawl with nonstop rallies for two years now. have been a series of bombings in and around baghdad thought to be targeting the sheer population twin bombs went off at sunset in a town north of the capital killing sixteen injuring forty blaster the livestock market killed four and wounded dozens and a town in the south there five roadside bombs left at least two police officers dead while another explosion targeting

a police bus was reported west of the capital. clashes continue in dhaka the vice president of the main opposition party was sentenced to death for war crimes seventeen people reported dead and two hundred aged up to protest his rampage through the capital setting fire to a hindu temple to a police camp delta has say inside the was a victim of mass my other atrocities committed during the one nine hundred seventy one independence war against pakistan. thanks for being with us tonight in a couple of minutes bankers beware again because max is bag. i've got a lot of messages from our t.v. viewers who are very concerned about drones living under skynet is not the american

way and many are concerned about their safety and privacy congressman ted poe has introduced a bill that may address some people's concerns about drones this bill is the preserving american privacy act which clarifies how the government can use these drugs so basically the act adds bureaucracy to drone usage in order to restrict it in theory protecting people's privacy the thing is that one side is arguing for drone usage and the other side for bureaucratic restricted drone usage but what about not using drones to spy on americans ever no drones should be used on american territory period and overseas they seem to breed more terrorists than they kill saying that there are only two sides to this issue for drones and well kind of for drones is absurd congressman poe if you would please be so kind as to change the name of your legislation to the drones are an acceptable form of tyranny act i would be very grateful to you sir but that's just my opinion.